Monthly Archives: February 2012

Lately Port Townsend has been seeing a whole lot of high winds. Please be aware that this can affect your Internet connections. Some may experience no problems and others at the far ends of the service line may see slower or no connections what so ever.

One way to check is to power-cycle your modem. To do this you need just unplug the round black plug from the back of your modem, give a long 10 count and then plug it back in. If your DSL light stays flashing then there is an issue with the CenturyLink system. If all the lights come back on you should be fine.

Wind can cause branches and whole trees to topple which may result in down lines with the end result of an offline status for your connection.

I hope this helps you with the issues you may have arise during high wind times.

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Most of us use email in one form or another. Be it Gmail, Yahoo, WLM or an ISP. The one thing all of these have in common is SPAM. More often than not we think of spam as the garbage emails which annoy us to no end. And then we also wonder why some of our regular mail ends up in the SPAM folder.

Regular emails can end up in the spam folder for one or more of many reasons:

Too much HTML code in the message can trigger false positives.

Too many recipients and its thought of as SPAM.

Specific words or phrases that most spam filters look for are used and it gets pigeonholed.

To fight off most of these errors the easiest way is to add the sender to your contacts list or safe-senders list. You can also click a button or check a box that says “Not Spam” and it will be sent to your inbox or marked as safe for future emails. Any way you look at most of the errors are due to the person sending it and hitting on tags that say it may be spam.

As a provider I am often called upon to find out where an email went to. More often than not its in their SPAM folder and they just need to mark the sender as safe.

One thing we all need on our PC is a good antivirus program. Why is it then that it is the one thing we more often then not forget to do. With this in mind here are links to a few free ones for you.

I have listed them here for you in order of my personal preferences:

AVG Free is one of the better ones out there. You have to deal with the advertising from AVG but only if you open the user interface and you can close the ad by clicking the “x” in the corner. It is self updating and will run on schedule as long as your computer is on.

Malwarebytes is an excellent tool for removing those pesky ones that the other antivirus programs miss. This program is a manual run program to use when you think your computer is running slower than usual and may have infections.

Email Settings and Setup

Health Care

Health Insurance Get Covered!

As of October 2013, uninsured Washingtonians can shop for affordable health coverage options through WAHealthplanfinder.org.

Local "In Person Assisters" are available in Jefferson County, at various sites for open enrollment from October 2013 to March 2014 to help individuals apply for health insurance options. Learn your eligibility for Medicaid or qualified health plans tax credits, compare plans and enroll in insurance.

Where can I find help?
*Jefferson Healthcare, 385-2000
*Jefferson County Public Health, 385-9400
*Olympic Area Agency on Aging, 379-5064